Sentence examples for multiple evolutionary transitions from inspiring English sources

Phylogenetic analyses revealed that multiple evolutionary transitions between isometry and allometry of foot webbing have occurred in this lineage.

Thus, the Mycobacteria included in our dataset span an ecological range from host-dependent pathogens to soil bacteria, allowing us to study multiple evolutionary transitions.

Most groups of Auchenorrhyncha are associated with Sulcia; however, symbionts that co-reside with Sulcia vary, implying multiple evolutionary transitions in major auchenorrhynchan clades (see fig. 1; Moran et al. 2003; McCutcheon et al. 2009b; Koga et al. 2013).

Repeated adaptation to novel niches is a pervasive form of parallel evolution, and abiotic adaptive diversification is one instance in which multiple evolutionary transitions can be used to identify patterns in either the traits and/or underlying genetic basis of adaptive phenotypic change.

We applied this metric to body mass evolution in mammals over the last 70 million years, during which multiple large evolutionary transitions occurred in oceans and on continents and islands.

Multiple independent evolutionary transitions from gonochoristic to hermaphroditic reproduction have also been observed in the latter two nematode genera [ 17, 20] and a broad review of numerous rhabditid nematodes showed up to ten independent transitions to hermaphroditism [ 21].

Here, we sequenced ~8000 genes from three independently derived selfing lineages and one outcrosser from Eichhornia, a plant genus that illustrates multiple independent evolutionary transitions from outcrossing to selfing.

Multiple evolutionary hypotheses regarding feeding behaviors and habitat transitions are presented in the literature (e.g., [ 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 27- 29]) and all should be considered plausible until rigorously evaluated using modern phylogenetic comparative methods.

Moreover, Maynard Smith and Szathmary ([1997]) argued that major evolutionary transitions such as multicellularity rely on cooperative behaviors between multiple entities.

These constraints make some evolutionary transitions easy and others more difficult.

Using recovered fossils, paleontologists have reconstructed examples of radical evolutionary transitions in form and function.